1960s rarities

[JC]

Robert Rowland's trip down Memory Lane in issue 47 brought us two rare survivors from the 1960s.
The first was a Challenger wall machine - there's nothing rare about 1960s Challengers, but this was not the more common 1d Holt Engineering machine, it is a 3d Challenger manufactured by Robinson Partners (London) Ltd and distributed by Samson.
The second machine was a small flipper-less pinball type game called Win-a-Lot, manufacturer unknown. I've never seen one of these before - nor have I ever seen a machine illuminated with Christmas tree lights!
Here are the pictures:

[aristomatic]

Heavily revamped on a new penny:

[brigham]

Heavily revamped on a new penny:

The Horror....The Horror.

[cait001]

Oh hey, now that this thread is back on the front page: I love these games! Win-A-Lot seems so cool, almost like a carnival skill game.
Challenger is pretty cool too, though I prefer the Allwin-style games with the coin-filling columns.

[rippyspennyarcade]

Latest pictures with the lost omitted - original machine did not come with lost columns.

[cait001]

Latest pictures with the lost omitted - original machine did not come with lost columns.

The coin that causes a win/payout goes into the back of the machine for the operator, right?

If so, definitely don't need those LOST columns!

[rippyspennyarcade]

You are correct cait001 , The Lost would only have been added by a mean operator who wanted the machine to make a little more cash

[moonriver]

[malcymal]

Here is a Win-A-Lot in actual play.

[oxford allwin fan]

Win-a-lot; superb & thanks for the video. Love the Christmasy lights..


'Win-a-little' might have been a better name though!